Russian-appointed authorities in the occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson say electricity and water were cut after a Ukrainian attack on power lines.
The U.S. is sending Ukraine $400 million more in military aid, including air defense missiles and establishing a security assistance headquarters in Germany.
To repair the energy system, experts say that Ukraine needs high-voltage transformers and distribution and communication equipment, and that the deliveries must be systematic.,” Gennadii Riabtsev, chief researcher on energy security at the National Institute for Strategic Studies, said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly video address to the nation Sunday that about 4.5 million people were without electricity across the country. He called on Ukrainians to endure the hardships, saying, “We must get through this winter and be even stronger in the spring than now.”
In territory held by Ukraine, Russia has been repeatedly targeting power infrastructure. Ukraine’s state-owned electricity grid operator, Ukrenergo, on Monday announced, and the surrounding region, as well as in the Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Sumy, Kharkiv, Poltava and Zhytomyr regions.
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